Kolkata: Bengal BJP has already started preparing for the Nandigram and Rejinagar assembly bypolls — still more than two months away. Party general secretary Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has been assigned charge of Nandigram. BJP vice president Prabal Raha will oversee the party campaign in Rejinagar.The Nandigram assembly seat was vacated after CM Suvendu Adhikari resigned…
Kolkata: Police, bank officials and the I-T department have launched a probe after an unexplained Rs 47 crore was credited to the bank account of a cloud kitchen owner in Beleghata.The account holder, Nupur Gupta, who runs a home-delivery food business, approached Beleghata police on Thursday after discovering the deposit. She told police she had…
Kolkata: The state govt will introduce a “one-side parking” system across Kolkata and bring the city’s parking network under a unified digital platform, urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said on Friday.A dedicated app will provide real-time information on available spaces, allow users to reserve slots and make digital payments. “We are trying…
Peerless Group’s revenue reached Rs 1,013 crore in FY 2026 Kolkata: Peerless Group is hoping that its hospital subsidiary will alone cross the Rs 500-crore mark by the end of this fiscal. The group as a whole had a revenue of Rs 500 crore four years back, and it has crossed Rs 1,000 crore.The group’s…
Calcutta High Court (file picture) Kolkata: The National Testing Agency told the Calcutta High Court on Friday that it will debar a NEET UG candidate from taking the exam for three years under the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, after Justice Amrita Sinha prima facie found that the OMR sheets submitted by…
Howrah: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari addresses a press conference at Nabanna in Howrah on Friday, July 31, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata: Rs 150 crore in cash, gold and assets including 242 vehicles, two petrol pumps, seven houses, a farmhouse, and counting. The list constitutes only a part of Birbhum stone mining baron Tulu…
Kolkata: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened its first centre of excellence in AI in eastern India at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (HITK) on Friday. Talks are on for two such centres at IIEST and Jadavpur University.The centre, built in collaboration between industry and academia, will train students in developing AI-based solutions.KM Suceendran, head of…
Friendship Day celebrations this year are taking inspiration from one of the most familiar parts of modern friendships, the WhatsApp group chat. Marking the occasion, SOCIAL is hosting an initiative that invites friend groups to share the names of their group chats, often inspired by inside jokes, college memories, travel plans or shared experiences. Groups…
Hamid Mondal (face covered) had been staying in the flat for the past two to three months, allegedly to evade detection by law enforcement agencies. BURDWAN: A suspected member of the banned terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has been arrested in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, news agency PTI reported on Friday.The Special Task Force (STF)…
KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday alleged a Rs 15,000 crore revenue leak in Birbhum over the past 15 years, claiming the alleged corruption could not have taken place without the support of the previous government.Speaking to media, Adhikari alleged that several government departments were either involved in the alleged irregularities or…
